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live: l’ocelle mare (F), breezy days band (USA), le ton mite (F)
dj parnreiter (artonal)
vk 5.-/ak 6.-
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 L’OCELLE MARE
L’Ocelle mare is the solo project from Thomas Bonvalet, guitarist from Cheval de Frise. Energy, technicity and sincerity characterise this new recording. During the past few years, Thomas has been touring frequently with friends from Deerhoof (Kill Rock Stars), Gorge Trio (Skin Graft), Radical Satan (Potagers Natures) and Chevreuil (RuminanCe). His musical language tells us something beautiful: playing guitar only, he finds new tones and acoustics in a musical approach which is reminicent of John Fahey and David Grubbs (Drag City).
Recorded in deserted caves, churches and barns in the French countryside, Thomas invites us to sit with him in these dark places, and with his guitar and percussions, throw us into an obscurity where each note is ‘light’.
16 tracks for classical guitar and complicated percussions: 16 rythms, 16 heart-beats. Have a look at his concerts, where Thomas curves his body around his guitar with his fingers running independantly on the strings, creating unheardbefore sounds. This is crazy. Then suddenly, his feet stop their rythm, his fingers stop too, but, the music is still running in your head. It’s an intense light carved in the ceiling of forever. (from the site of RuminanCe) [http://www.ruminance.com]
BREEZY DAYS BAND
Breezy Day’s Band find out what we are doing by doing it. Presently we think of telling a story as building piles of qualities/adjectives. We think of “degree of articulation/coherence/crystalinity” as the major parameter by which we separate into oppositions, cognize our activity, and tell stories. We hear oppositions in degree of coherence in our sound. In our instrumentation: unison guitars play against a set of drums. Guitars are regularised repetitions of a sounding element and follow a crystaline lattice formation in their gridded playing surface. Drums are irregular constellations of sounding elements without fixed or codified interelations. We try to play our instruments to bring out these qualities. Our tunes range and separate along the regularity parameter by combining recieved/intuitive music with calculated material; floating crystals in soup. We try to continue these ideas at every level of observation that we can think of (within the timbres of the guitars, within the timbres of the drums, the forms of our sets, in our visual presentation, our typography, etc)
LE TON MITÉ
Le Ton Mité is currently a group of five people featuring two guitars, clarinet, percussion and cello. Le Ton Mité has been active here in France playing three tours of the country, and active in the United States by touring extensively with bands such as Deerhoof, The Gorge Trio and Old Time Religun.
Le Ton Mité is touring in support of the new release, “Tickets to Real Imaginary Places” on the Zicmuse label (as a CD distributed through K records, Secretly Canadian Distribution and CARGO DE). Guitars, cello, clarinets, keyboard and voice work together to celebrate everyday parts of life: clouds, potatoes, the moon, right down to smiling and waving. Recorded in homes and hotels around Olympia, Washington, Tickets to Real Imaginary Places takes you on a voyage through the countryside of North Pacific America. Each morsel is akin to Peter and the Wolf, in that it spins a tale, makes a new friend or shares in the creation of an elixir. Tickets to Real Imaginary Places is the sonic component to an art installation by band ringleader, McCloud Zicmuse, that is based on real experiences in summertime. |
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